Category Archives: Developer

Email allows you to create a relationship with your customers that looks and feels more personal. While phpList offers deep insights on how your email campaigns perform, most marketers are equally interested in knowing what happens after the click?! Marketing now is not only data-based but it’s data-driven and this makes data ownership a big… [+]

phpList was initially launched back in 2000, the first Open Source email marketing software. Since that date a lot have changed on the product itself and the people who contribute to making it possible. All these years phpList has improved in various directions in an effort to meet the needs of its users. “Trevelin” was… [+]

APIs are essential for building applications that are open and can integrate with other applications and services, yet with the openness of APIs comes a challenge: APIs can create additional security risks, as they increase the number of ways in which malicious actors could get into applications. Therefore, when developing APIs, careful design and security… [+]

The next generation of phpList, version 4, has been under development for some time. It’s still in the early stages (Alpha 1), but already provides useful API functionality. Here’s an update on what it is, what you can do with it, and short-term goals. What is it? A ground-up rewrite of phpList 3 using best… [+]

This post by Xheni Myrtaj describes her experiences extending her PHP skills using online training materials from Treehouse and contributing code to phpList. Xheni is studying for a Masters Degree in Information Security and recently began an Internship with phpList. The transition from being a student to the world of real work can be quite… [+]

Today new advice on how to use trademarks related to phpList has been published as the Trademark Guidelines. phpList is used widely for both sending and managing email campaigns, and also providing newsletter services and software from community members to others. Because it is Open Source software both created and deployed by an international community,… [+]

By Suela Palushi, event organiser and Business Informatics student in Tirana, Albania Photography by Andis Rado After a very successful translation sprint where thanks to team work our contributors got to translate phpList to Albanian (all in one night :D) this time we thought to get hands on some more technical stuff. So on 10th October… [+]

Last summer we started trialling some new ways for people to get involved in phpList development. We tested a few things, and found that the release candidate method had a great response. Our next release candidate is due very soon. You can sign up to receive it by using the subscribe form immediately below, or… [+]

A new plugin, submitByMail, allows you to compose your campaigns in your email client, for example in Thunderbird or Outlook, and then submit them to phpList by email before sending. This plugin is an early beta version: it has been thoroughly debugged but has not yet been tested in the field. As the author, I… [+]

Our new phpList.org, launched to celebrate phpLists 15th birthday, has an sent mails counter on the home page, which shows us how many emails we sent as a community so far this year. We also know how many emails were sent last year, and how many countries phpList is used in right now. The tally at the time… [+]